At The "j. C." Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBB CCDEEED FFEGGGE HHIBBBB JJKEEEK LLMBBBM NNOPPPO| None ever knew his name | A |
| Honoured or one of shame | A |
| Highborn or lowly | B |
| Only upon that tree | B |
| Two letters J and C | B |
| Carved by him mark where he | B |
| Lay dying slowly | B |
| - | |
| Why came he to the West | C |
| Had then the parent nest | C |
| Grown so distasteful | D |
| What cause had he to shun | E |
| Life ere twas well begun | E |
| Was he that youngest son | E |
| Of substance wasteful | D |
| - | |
| Were Fate and he at War | F |
| Was it a pennance or | F |
| Renunciation | E |
| Is it a glad release | G |
| Has he at length found peace | G |
| Now Death hath bid him cease | G |
| Peregrination | E |
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| Hands white without a blot | H |
| Told us that he was not | H |
| One of the vulgar | I |
| What can those cyphers be | B |
| Two only J and C | B |
| Carved in his agony | B |
| Deep in the mulga | B |
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| Was there no woman s face | J |
| Whose sunny smile might chase | J |
| Clouds from above him | K |
| No bosom white as snow | E |
| No lips to whisper low | E |
| Why doth he seek to go | E |
| Do I not love him | K |
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| Haunted by flashing charms | L |
| White bosoms rounded arms | L |
| Lips of fair ladies | M |
| Striving to break some link | B |
| Was t that which made him sink | B |
| Dragged by the curse of drink | B |
| Deeper than Hades | M |
| - | |
| Now the wind across the grave | N |
| Tuning a sultry stave | N |
| Drearily whistles | O |
| Stirring those branches where | P |
| Two silent cyphers stare | P |
| Two letters of a prayer | P |
| God s Son s initials | O |
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